The company that paid me didn't care (or didn't notice) that I posted their story to my archived Wordpress blog that hasn't been updated in almost a year, until that post.
Somebody from England paid me $150 just two weeks ago to post an article they wrote on my personal blog. My blog gets maybe 50 unique visits a day on average? I can't imagine how any Google juice from my site could be worth $150, but what the hell. I'll certainly take their money.
Any government employee who is found to be willfully obstructing justice or willfully violating the constitutional rights of a citizen should be banned from working in the public sector ever again.
Given that the FDA mostly answers to the traditional pharmaceutical and medical industry, this seems more like a citation for criminal interference with an outdated business plan. Informed patients are not something the traditional powers in medicine want to deal with.
Nope. Pretty much all boys are interested in guns. Only a tiny percentage grow up to police officers or in the military. More grow up as hunters, but that is mostly cultural. If you grow up in a family of hunters, you will probably continue. Urban VA Beach is not a place you find an excess of hunters.
Serious question. Does anybody see any serious progress within the Federal Government to do something about all of this? As far as I can tell, 90% of Congress, along with the entire executive branch and probably most of the Supreme Court are all-in on supporting the surveillance state.
We can vote the bums out, but I think recent history tells us that the new bums will be more of the same.
Given his track record on delivering "the most transparent administration in history" I'm not sure why anybody would take any of this seriously. it's window dressing to mollify the masses, and they won't even bother to follow through on it anyway.
No way the US ever lets Snowden "get away" with this. While he is testifying in Congress with full immunity somebody will be planting a kilo of heroin in his car or house, assuming they decide to let him live at all.
Or, this is all a classic misdirection ruse. Get a couple of establishment papers like the Post and NYT to drum up the idea that the tide has turned and pair it with the manufacture of a surprisingly close vote and you have a pretty good shot at distracting the public long enough with fake reform efforts for all this to go away, from the govt. point of view.
Not that I'm accusing our government of lying to use or anything.
They know how to keep a promise. However, the American public didn't sped enough to get its promise onto the "keep" list. Wall Street, on the other hand...
This isn't the first time 4chan has done this sort of thing to Taylor Swift. A couple of years ago they took over a "get Taylor to play your school" contest and won it for a school for the deaf. To Taylor Swift's credit, she gave a concert ticket to every kid in the school, and donated $50,000 to the school too.
I googled the details, really, I'm a not big Taylor Swift fan. I actually thought she played the concert there before I fact-checked myself.
Without Benedict Arnold's leadership at the Battle of Saratoga we might all have much more of a vested interest in the birth happening in London today.
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We can vote the bums out, but I think recent history tells us that the new bums will be more of the same.
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He'd be nuts to take an immunity deal
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Not that I'm accusing our government of lying to use or anything.
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I googled the details, really, I'm a not big Taylor Swift fan. I actually thought she played the concert there before I fact-checked myself.
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